Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Although that project initially met with intense community opposition--the city council filed a suit against the construction, but it eventually lost--the bulldozers, cranes and huge belching duptrucks of the Perini Corporation are now as familiar a site in the Square as the street musicians...
...everybody is happy with the project. The noise and the dust--which prompted the University to strike a deal with the MBTA for $1 million dollars for soundproofing and other construction activities--have angered may residents, who fear the Square will never look the same...
...three weeks in the height of the summer, they go back to school--the deputy administrators, commissioners, city managers, project coordinators and executive directors...
...what is byzanium? It's super-uranium, only found on one island off the coast of Russia. It will power the Sicilian project, a laser curtain to shield capitalism and democracy from the trigger-happy Bolsheviks. With typical American foresight, a miner dug all of it up in 1912, before the radio, much less the laser, was more than a glimmer in the mind of some scientist. The miner, with somewhat less foresight, set sail a few weeks later on, you guessed it, see the pieces beginning to fall into place, the Titanic. Pretty good plot...
Jason Robards plays an admiral, the man in charge of the Sicilian Project and hence the Titanic resurfacing. Richard Jordan is Dirk Pitt, a retired Navy intelligence officer so daring that he's asked to supervise the salvage operation ("He'll only take a crack at something if it sounds impossible; otherwise he wants no part of it," says Admiral Robards of his mercenary friend). And David Selby is Dr. Seagram, a scientist who, somewhat inexplicably, learned enough at Cal Poly to both devise the laser shield and figure out how to find the Titanic. There is even a woman...